[Newport] October 23.
The 3 Gentlemen sent by the Town Council to D. Govr Cook to advise on the present State of this To returned this Afternoon, with a Letter from Gov. Cook dated at Cambridge the 21st Inst. in which he advises that upon the Advice of. the Committe of the Continental Congres.s now sitting at Cambridge, Wallace shd be supplied with Provisions on Condition of sufferg the Ferry & Wood Boats to pass freely: ー that the Troops stationed here should continue on the Isld, but out of Town: that by Express received the day before from Piscataqua, they were informed that several Ships & Transports with Kings Troops appeared in Casco Bay & demanded of the To of Falmo a surrendg of their Arms with Hostages for Fidelity, & shewed Orders for destroying that To & Portsmouth upon Refusal; that 8 Muskets were surrendered and no more ー whereupon on Tuesday last the Ships began a heavy Canotiade on the To of Falmouth.
1. Dexter, ed., Diary of Ezra Stiles, I, 626.